WRLGD @ THE ENTERPRISE, CAMDEN 16th MARCH
Artist
We Rock Like Girls Don't
Venue
The Enterprise, Camden
Date
16th March, 2009
Standing in a small room above the Enterprise in Camden may not be the place you would expect to see a band that have been drawing rave reviews from the mainstream press of late, but then, they wouldn't have been drawing the rave reviews if they were doing things any different. We Rock Like Girls Don't aren't pretending to do things by anyone's rules apart from their own, and as the duo take to the stage of Turning Worm Presents it's easy to see why.
With just a set of drums, a guitar and two microphones the right hand stage almost seems to have a space set aside for their now departed bassist - there's one more band to come on this night - but from the second that drummer Vas kicks things off with a drum beat that resonates through out the room, and in all honesty shapes the bands sound you can tell that this is a band that are doing this because they can, because they want to, and because they want you to want them to.
We Rock Like Girls Don't are passionate on stage, and once you get used to to what's missing you start to hear what is here, and there's a lot to hear. Vas' drums are central to everything, and the power and aggression in her playing brings the entire vision crashing into life, while the chugging guitars provided by Ros seem almost to compliment the drums rather than the other way around. Feet are tapping, heads are nodding, and halfway through the set, I wanted there to be more people... how could there not be I asked myself?
Truth be told, I don't think it will be long before the aggression, passion and damn right rock n roll credentials of these two girls sees them playing to much bigger crowds, but those here tonight will be happy in the knowledge that they saw them in a cramped room in Camden, sweating for the sheer joy of just playing music live.
If you like your rock stripped down, if you like your live music with passion and belief, then We Rock Like Girls Don't are a band you simply can't avoid seeing live. Seriously, I'm not even joking, miss these girls and you'll wish you hadn't when you crammed shoulder to shoulder with thousands of other people watching them ruing the day you didn't see them with just a handful of your friends!
Editor review Mike Elliott
